“However, 2010 is not like 1994. Apple has money, mindshare and the hottest platform to no longer having to beg,” Kontra writes. “Today, Apple is more concerned about having to re-live its recent history — getting jerked around by Microsoft or held hostage by Adobe — than what it thinks would be manageable damage by a few developers that may leave its platform.”
Kontra writes, “Some may regard that as being arrogant. For Apple it’s the price of being in charge of its own destiny. To capitulate at the height of its newly found vigor would be suicidal. Suicidal Apple is no longer.”
Full article – very highly recommended – here.
I’m staying on Apple’s ship! i will live or die with Captain jobs decisions. I only buy apple and will continue to do so. If they decide to not use flash anymore, then i will be with them.
I’m 1000% on this one. Through all the years, MS, Adobe has jerked Apple around long enough. Remember Bungie and what MS did to embarrass Steve and everyone with cool game that Mac users were salivating to have?
lets do it APPLE show them how computing was ment to be done!!!
I agree–screw Flash!
macintosh is a celtic name. celts don’t get mad, they get even.
‘Some may regard that as being arrogant.’
Absolutely not. It is a sign of intelligence. In any facet of life, if someone has repeated kicked you in your soft spot, you work on stopping it (unless you are a masochist). Steve is in the process of stopping it…..Period!
Just remember it’s the computer not the gadgets. Pulling the best people off OSX and Apple COMPUTER development will delay the day when we are finally released from Adobe and Microsoft.
PS – Lots of work for Apple to do on Aperture before I can ditch Photoshop – especially in the area of not having to sacrifice my hard drive (terminal fragmentation), speed, and reliability like we have to do now if we install and use Aperture 3.xxx
@ABQ Peter
Doesn’t tosh mean Balderdash????? Maybe in this case celts don’t get mad, they get silly.
Don’t think we’ll be seeing Roz Ho on stage any more…
There’s a note relevant to Google and Android there, too:
“Users do not follow esoteric open/closed platform politics, they vote with their money for convenience, reliability and value.”
If Android devices can deliver then people will buy them. But they won’t buy them just because of a rhetoric (or even an actuality) of openness.
Of course, Google knows it has to deliver, and is trying to attract developers like anything. Pogue on that:
http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/19/android-tries-harder/
Hey Adobe & Microsoft u Hear That, “Go fsck yourself!”
For the professional, there is no Creative Suite replacement yet. And I have tried all of the Office alternatives and we still need Office at work.
At home, I can easily live on only Apple software titles. But at work, the alternatives just aren’t’ there yet.
I love Apple, but again, I feel they are more focus on consumer products and less on keeping professionals up to full speed.
In my mind, this is what Apple has been doing over the last 15 years: Taking charge of its own destiny. In the 90s, Apple was almost completely at the mercy of Adobe, MS, Avid, Sears, CompUSA and Circuit City. But they recognized that strategically dangerous position and that’s why we have: iTunes, iTunes Media Store, the App store, iPhone SDK, Safari, iLife, iWork, Aperture, Logic, Final Cut and Apple retail stores to show off everything in the best light.
All these products not only served to make money for Apple, they also served to break the strategic dependencies Apple had 15 years ago on other companies to showcase, exploit and maximize Apple computers, OS and software.
Apple has other good reasons to make developers create apps in C languages than just to get back at Adobe. Trying to take short cuts to bring old flash apps over to the iPhone OS will cause unnecessary code, and poor UI. The SDK brought lots of developers to the Mac OS who would have never looked at a Mac before. So Apple wants them to write apps in same languages as a Mac hopeing getting some to start writing apps for Macs. Better performance for the iPhone and more Mac apps is the main reason. Sticking it to Adobe is just the cherry on top.
Amen Apple!
@ABQ Peter:
“celts don’t get mad, they get even.”
Actually, the Celts like the Vikings do seem to have practised battle-rage.
In literature Cú Chulainn, the “Hound of Ulster”, who is the hero of the Táin Bó Cúailnge (The Cattle Raid of Cooley) has to be plunged in three vats of cold water to cool his anger.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&q=Cú+Chulainn+rage
We need PS replacement from Apple ASAP.
I don’t believe Jobs was with Apple in 1994. Article could have said 1998, woulda made more sense.
Roz gave up that gig a long time ago. She’s now running the Kin business.
except for PDF which is embedded into the OS…
Arrogance will only result in Apple being perceived as the New Microsoft.
Apple needs to be careful in how Developers are treated. They are vitally important allies and not nuisance competition or second rate customers.
Pogue’s warning hits the spot.
QuickTime and it’s garbage code for windows. What’s apples excuse for it’s buggy integration into Windows based NLE’s including Adobe products? Works fine on the Mac. As does Flash on the PC.
To me, it’s a bit disingeniuous to call out flash woes when your own video display app doesn’t perform well on Windows platform.
Apple = Sony
At this point, Microsoft not delivering Office apps for the ixxx only hurts Microsoft.
Adobe is complaining, even though they do not have, and may never have, a fully functional Flash running on a mobil device. Their content creation package has a lot of life left in it, but the flash component of that is outdated and will/should die as fresh, more efficient, less buggy standards move into place – they had their chance and blew it.
But Apple isn’t begging and pleading and calling names with MS to put Quicktime on WinMo 7 or the Zune or in MS MovieMaker (or whatever it’s called.) Or what if Apple created an WinMo7 version of iTunes. Should MS be forced to install it on WinMo 7 phones to prove they care about their customers? Or shouldn’t Nintendo be forced to put a version of iTunes on the new DS. After all, isn’t that what customers want and it would be so much fairer to the musicians.
i’m a loyal apple guy–i have a macbook, iphone, and touch–but it really annoys me that apple doesn’t include support for flash on iphone and discourages jailbreaking. if anything, though, apple should really just buy adobe.